First Comparison Of Palin To Pontius Pilate

According to our research, the first comparison of Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate was posted as a comment to the Washington Post blog — The Fix:

washingtonpost.com’s Politics Blog

Palin Speaks: How Did She Do?

ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took to the stage at the Republican National Convention tonight and delivered the most-anticipated speech of this gathering…

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Comments

Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.

Posted by: Laura | September 4, 2008 10:52 AM

Which just goes to show how inside the Beltway and inbred this all is.

By the way, the first response to Laura’s post is hard to top:

“Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

True. But unlike Obama, Jesus actually brought about change instead of talking incessantly about it or writing two memoirs.

Also, Jesus didn’t vote “present” 130 times…

Posted by: Right Winger | September 4, 2008 11:03 AM

But it became the new Democrat talking point anyway, via their echo chamber:

And leftwing “noise machine”:

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Note that it was not only picked up by the Daily Kos — but the marching orders went out from the great Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga (Kos) himself.

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And the Democrat’s lickspittle minions dutifully parroted the line.

Even Congressmen.

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